Zarif Faiaz

Discover the journey of Xuanzang, the Chinese monk who documented ancient Bengal, Mahasthangarh, and the intellectual landscape of the 7th century.

Tim Cook leaves behind a $4.6tn corporate machine, an unrivalled consumer ecosystem and a record of extraordinary political dexterity.

The government wants to spend Tk 683 crore training more than 50,000 young people to become freelancers.

We’ve all heard the phrase—“China is not living in the future. It is the future.” In many ways, it is a literal truth. The influx of robot taxis, the automation craze, and the skyscrapers in Shanghai racing each other to the clouds certainly point that way. For many economies in the Global South, it is also a blueprint. But the most tempting lesson to draw from China’s technological miracle is also the most misleading: build a few futuristic industrial parks, announce an artificial intelligence strategy, import advanced equipment and wait for transformation to follow.

We live it every day, and Dhaka’s unliveability is simply undeniable.

ArchiveGenocide brings together tens of thousands of videos and photographs, as researchers race to protect potentially important material from deletion, censorship and digital decay

Hundreds of thousands of photographs, letters and personal records are being preserved across multiple countries as Gaza’s cultural institutions face widespread destruction.

This week, for the first time in recorded history, a single human being's net worth crossed the trillion-dollar threshold. And yet, look past the headline figure, and the empire generating it looks less like a triumphant monument and more like a building site after a fire alarm. Several, actually.